![]() ![]() When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in the already overburdened household of their stern, unsmiling grandmother. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. That cord is there forever." When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. ![]() She said, "It doesn't matter that there's a distance btween us now. She said that my umbilical cord was like a ribbon that connected me to Mami. "That way," Mami told the midwife, "no matter where life takes her, she won't ever forget where she came from." Then Mago touched my belly button. ![]() Mago pointed to a spot on the dirt floor and reminded me that my umbilical cord was buried there. From an award-winning novelist and sought-after public speaker, an eye-opening memoir about life before and after illegally emigrating from Mexico to the United States. ![]()
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